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Generally, classically I’ve understood Socialism to still involve central planning of industry/production.

Socialism is worker control of the means of production, which can take many forms. What it is, most distinctively, is incompatible with capitalism, which is investor control of the means of production.

Whereas most modern socialist democracies tend to heavily regulate industry and enact social welfare programs to minimize the effects of different classes etc.

The most successful socialist parties in the West take the view that the harm of capitalism should be reduced while it still exists; they still believe in the eventual abolition of capitalism.

I always thought they were more traditional socialist democracy?

... what do you think socialism is, exactly?

Like, Germany’s Left parties mostly don’t want to dismantle capitalism but I wouldn’t dismiss all conversation about them and putting people on that Left Right spectrum to be unserious.

Even the SDP is pro-forma still for the abolition of capitalism.

I just got yelled at because I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.

That's a terminology issue that you're going to run into in any sufficiently political community. 'Left-wing' in casual use in the US refers to "everyone except the Republicans and some moderates", but "left-wing" in any serious political talk refers to anti-capitalism.

I run a few history communities myself

!historyartifacts@lemmy.world to share or admire pieces of the past - swords, armor, jewelry, or pieces of everyday life

!historyporn@lemmy.world for photographs of the past (or film)

!historyillustrations@lemmy.world for drawings and the sort of the past

!historyruins@lemmy.world for photos of old ruins, if you enjoy seeing such things

And a few history meme communities with them

!historymemes@lemmy.world for memes about history of all sorts, no restrictions!

!roughromanmemes@lemmy.world for memes about the GLORIOUS ROMAN EMPIRE

!shermanposting@lemmy.world for posts about the US Civil War and how slaver scum deserved their defeat

More generally, there's:

!adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com for memes about ADHD and related disorders. A lot of comorbidity there.

!animearmor@lemm.ee for anime pics of cool weapons and armor

!askhistorians@lemmy.world if you have any questions on random bits of history you've been wondering about

!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world for the ever-popular video game Baldur's Gate 3

!dogs@lemmy.world for pics of your own dogs or random dogs you've found online. Precious creatures!

!cat@lemmy.world for the same, but for cats

!forgottenweapons@lemmy.world if you like old or obscure firearms

!lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com for Lord of the Rings memes

!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world if you want some wholesome posts to take your mind off things or brighten your day.

!militarymoe@ani.social if you like anime girls in uniform

!noncredibledefense@lemmy.world or !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works for tongue-in-cheek militaria shitposting

!soulslike@lemmy.zip for talk about Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, etc

!wlw_memes@lemmy.world for memes by/about/for girls who love girls

!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network for memes about tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons

!memes@lemmy.world or !memes@sopuli.xyz for memes in general (not much difference between the communities, just whichever you prefer - or both)

!grimdank@lemmy.world for Warhammer/40K memes or memes about similar tabletop games

!196@lemmy.world for random posts that don't go anywhere else. Just put 'rule' in the title - as the 'rule' is that you must post before you leave!

Recommend Lemmy communities, or other Fediverse alternatives (like Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter, the same way Lemmy replaces Reddit)?

It could be carried, by a swallow!

They're squeezing water from a stone here DX

Me, limping my ass into a McDonalds for the first time in forever: "I'll have 20 nuggets, no meal." (expecting 5$, or something close to it since it had legitimately been a while)

"Yeah, that'll be 12.47"

The fuck???

How's Lemmy.cafe? I believe they defederate the Big 3 Tankie instances. Dunno what their downtime or admins are like.

He caught one of the nursemaids speaking G*rman to the infant and the experiment had to be aborted. RIP

If they don’t want to have to deal with rules preventing them from abusing their fellow users

That's... not at all what I said.

I’m also going to be completely blunt, I don’t believe you that having to respect the choice of pronouns of transgender users isn’t the issue. I think you’re lying to cover for them.

I'm lying to cover for the trans folk on the mod team saying that they will continue to respect neopronouns and enforce rules against misgendering on the .world comm.

Uh.

Okay.

As I understand it, it wasn't a singular disagreement, but a number of incidents in which, as I said, the 196 mods didn't want to have their own moderation decisions reversed or second-guessed if 196's ruleset was in compliance with the requirements of the instance.

There's something so cozy about late 90s web pages

Honestly, at the time, I hadn't interacted with Drag at all for months, and Drag had been banned from 196 by then anyway, and 196 was the vast majority of my Blahaj activity. For me, it was just that I didn't feel comfortable staying in an instance that was going to hand out bans and remove comments to ensure the existence of dragons wasn't questioned. I 'got' the underlying logic of it, but didn't feel comfortable sticking around for an instance that was going to go to bat for someone who literally and verbatim repeated the old conservative "Attack Helicopter" canard.

This thread is the first time I've interacted with Drag since, I believe.

And you shouldn’t have explained why your opinions are against the rules. In doing so, you broke the rules, which you should have known would happen, because you knew your opinions were against the rules.

Lord.

The recent position of the admins was that refusing to acknowledge the existence of dragons was no longer welcome on Blahaj.

What the fuck do you think "the recent position of the admins" refers to

Keep insisting that transphobia is when someone thinks dragons aren't real.

"I acknowledge that the recent position of the admins means I am no longer welcome here, and will thus be leaving. I wish them all the best."

"How DARE you say that out loud? Removed"